Starbucks sought to quash those rumors though.
According to emails sent to “partners” — the term Starbucks uses to describe employees — that were obtained by CNN’s Poppy Harlow, Schultz wrote that “suggestions that [Alstead’s] departure is somehow linked to his health or our financial performance last quarter are false, off-base and irresponsible.”
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